32.208, Books: Nominal Arguments and Language Variation: Jiang

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Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 21:28:40
From:  Oxford University Press [humanitiesmarketing at oup.com]
Subject: Nominal Arguments and Language Variation: Jiang

 


Title: Nominal Arguments and Language Variation 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Comparative Syntax  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/nominal-arguments-and-language-variation-9780190084172?utm_source=linguistlist&utm_medium=listserv&utm_campaign=linguistics 


Author: Li Julie Jiang

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190084165 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 125
Paperback: ISBN:  9780190084172 Pages: 384 Price: U.S. $ 65


Abstract:

Nominal Arguments in Language Variation investigates nominal arguments in
classifier languages, refuting the long-held claim that classifier languages
do not have overt article determiners. Li Julie Jiang brings the typologically
unique Nuosu Yi, a classifier language that has an overt definite determiner
(D), to the forefront of the theoretical investigation. By comparing nominal
arguments in Nuosu Yi to those in Mandarin, a well-studied classifier language
that has no overt evidence of an article determiner, Jiang provides new
accounts of variation among classifier languages and extends the parameters to
argument formation in general. In addition to paying particular attention to
these two classifier languages, the discussion of nominal arguments also
covers a wider range of classifier languages and number marking languages from
Romance, Germanic, and Slavic to Hindi.

Using a broad cross-linguistic perspective and detailed empirical analysis,
Nominal Arguments in Language Variation is an important contribution to
research on classifier languages and the fields of theoretical syntax,
semantics, language variation, and linguistic typology.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Semantics
                     Syntax
                     Typology

Subject Language(s): Chinese, Mandarin (cmn)


Written In: English  (eng)

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